Here is one way to get a lisp programming environment using emacs and slime and sbcl. Common Lisp was used to build viaweb by Paul Graham with 3 coders in 1995. It sold to yahoo for 50M us $ and became yahoo store. Lisp also powers orbitz.com. Other Lisp resources include scsh, drscheme, the book SICP, and Practical Common Lisp by Peter Seibel(free online), as well as ANSI common lisp and On lisp(free online) by Paul Graham. A gentle introduction to symbolic computation by Touretsky is free online as well. Happy hacking!

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* '''emacs''' - editor

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The components required are:

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* '''slime''' - lisp mode for emacs

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* '''sbcl''' - a common lisp implementation (clisp is another good one, just substitute clisp for sbcl in the following)

My userX is g, and /usr/bin/sbcl is path to steel bank common lisp (switch to clisp or CMU lisp if you like, which are other great common lisp implementations). '''Note:''' if you installed slime-cvs instead of the package from AUR, <code>load-path</code> should be set to <code>/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/slime/</code>

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Then run {{Ic|M-x slime}} from within emacs.

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Alternatively, for a fancier slime setup, you can change the above lines to:

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Then save [:wq], and [emacs & enter] to launch emacs, [ALT-x slime -return-] to enter slime mode, which takes like 10s to load, and there you are a nice working lisp dev environment. Emacs has its own tutorial built in and www.sbcl.org has info on sbcl..enjoy..